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Amazon fights back against accusations of ‘brutal’ worker treatment.

From a mid-level engineer to the CEO, Amazon employees are fighting back hard against accusations that the company treats its workers deplorably.

CEO Jeff Bezos, in a widely distributed staff memo, rebutted a New York Times Amazon exposĂ© that portrayed the company as a “brutal” place to work. He rebutted the claim that Amazon is a place where managers routinely weed out employees and backstabbing is encouraged.

“The article doesn’t describe the Amazon I know or the caring Amazonians I work with every day,” Bezos wrote on Sunday. “I strongly believe that anyone working in a company that really is like the one described in the NYT would be crazy to stay. I know I would leave such a company.”
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